Week 3/4 Semester 1 Update

In the week 3 meeting we started getting into a little more detail with the design of our game. We have determined quite a lot about what we want our final product to include and we have even started to design the screens. Vince has made a nice battle screen and Ryan has gotten our documentation format done. I am in the process of designing the rest of the game's screens and menus, and hopefully I will do a good job of that. Right now I have gotten what I think would be a good idea based on my experience with games down in text form. Jordan has updated the website even more with brief information about how we all plan to contribute to the project and has even put caricatures up which are pretty great. He has also made sure we keep up our working by continuing the task sheet trend which has been quite successful so far.

The meeting I talked about in the previous post on this blog was rescheduled and completed thanks to Jordan, and we now have TortoiseSVN set up and ready to use from our home computers, which should be yet another huge boost for our organisation purposes.

Everything seems to be going very well so far and I am completely satisfied with our progress.

Update

So far, pretty much everything is progressing smoothly and according to plan. I guess an exception to this is the planned meeting yesterday that didn't go ahead because of the flooding near Albion Park, but obviously that is none of our faults. Jordan managed to get a website up and running very quickly, and has planned out the entirety of this semester by having goals for the group to meet for each week. He has been doing a good job of keeping us organised, and has made sure we are all on the same page and aware of what we need to be doing. I am sure the meeting we missed will be rescheduled to a time pretty soon, so that won't be a problem. I wasn't around for most of our first meeting with Luke, but I heard about the outcomes and I intend to be there for today's meeting.

As for keeping in contact with one another, we have set up a Google Wave which all of us seem to be able to check regularly without any issues. And of course, there is also the email system which, to my knowledge, we have all got forwarding to an easy-to-check and regularly used address. I doubt there will be any communication problems whatsoever during the course of the year, which is definitely a huge plus for us.


Overall, things are looking good so far, and we haven't run into any real problems. Hopefully it stays that way!

I now have a blog!

I haven't really used a blog before, but it seems pretty easy. So far we have had one meeting but we have already started sorting out the roles for our project.